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A 5 page paper discussing how and whether multiculturalism needs to be considered in pursuing the study of art. The purpose of the paper is to examine how other artists have handled the multicultural aspect either of their own heritage or their work. The bottom line is that the artist needs to define her own reasons for pursuing art with any cultural meaning at all. Then the research undertaken to help define the directions and the subjects that the art will encompass will come to be better clarified. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSartMulticult.rtf
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continues to swing in ever-narrowing arcs as we continue to search for the "proper" way to address the growing multiculturalism of developed nations. The issue has become more than
only a politically correct item in the United States, where demographers predict that the white population of European descent will become a minority before 2050. The globalization of business
has brought individuals from every imaginable background and cultural identification into societies that for all of their history have been overwhelmingly European white. This includes not only the United
States, but also Canada, all of northern and western Europe, Australia and other nations influenced by Britains reign of the seas before and during the Renaissance. Part I Finding the
Middle Ground The widest arc of the pendulums swing was to ignore cultural differences as if they did not exist. This notion
was based on the premise that people are people, and all we have to do is to be associated with each other on individual terms in order to achieve understanding.
This turns out not to be the case, however. The narrowing arc of the pendulum now holds that we need to learn the characteristics of other cultures in
order to arrive at a greater understanding of the individuals who identify with them. The concern with this approach, of course, is that
those outside the culture(s) of study will descend into any stereotypes that have grown up around those cultures. These stereotypes more often than not are based on misconceptions, ignorance
or an attempt to generalize to an entire population the beliefs, attitudes, perspectives or behavior of only a few individuals. So the challenge is to learn about cultures based
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